4 month agoIS militants claim raid on Masa'ada village in western Ba'aj to target Iraqi Tribal Hashd militia, leading to the latter fleeing and the militants blowing up 2 houses, 1 belonging to the village mukhtar and the other of a "spy"
4 month agoUpon his arrival in Erbil on Monday, Iraq's Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi was welcomed by his Kurdistan Region counterpart Vala Fareed. Halbousi is expected to meet with senior Kurdish officials to discuss Erbil-Baghdad ties.
White House says the US is ending sanction waivers for countries importing Iran oil, increasing economic pressure on Iran.
The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity: Gas shipments from Iran will increase to 35 million cubic meters in June from 28 million currently
Iraq's Ministry of Electricity: Iraq does not have an alternative to Iranian gas and imports stop will deprive country of 4 thousand megawatts of electricity
In Iraq, source says US has established a helicopter landing facility in Rutba district in west Anbar Province that will enable US forces to observe all desert areas extending to Syrian border.
4 month agoIraq - Government forces - army and Counterterrorist units are carring out an mopping up opperation against ISIS cells near Hawija Iraqi forces are divided in two segments, blocking possible escape routes for jihadists. Results of the ops will be published later
4 month agoAsayish arrest two suspects in coordinated operation with federal forces
4 PKK militants nabbed by security forces at Iraq's Mount Sinjar have been brought to Turkey as part of an operation by the Turkish intelligence services
In Iraq, source says PM Abdel-Mahdi will not send letter of protest to acting US ambassador in Baghdad following US threats of diplomatic action against Iraq if it violates US sanctions on Iran. Iraq already has exemptions to some of the sanctions.
4 month agoSyria: Coastal Refinery of Banyas has been reactivated today following arrival of oil shipment (likely from Iraq).
Erbil Security Refutes Arrest of Former Nineveh Governor
Counter Terrorism Service @IraqiCTS have killed the Daesh leader Abu Idrees in Diyala province's Hamrin Mountains.
4 month agoPhotos of counter-terrorism operation in Western Anbar
Iraq counterterrorism Agency: weapons depots of militants in Hawijah in Kirkuk were destroyed
Iraq Counterterrorism: the arrest 12 militants west of the Rutbah in Anbar
In Iraq, unknown group attacks PUK headquarters with hand grenades in Khanaqin district in northeast Diyala Province. No injures as headquarters was empty.
4 month agoISOF-2 Kirkuk regiment raided an ISIS headquarters in Makhmour range, seizing 2 vehicles, destroying 2 supply caches, and killing 4 prominent leaders in ISIS.
ISIS kills Iraqi officer, injures two in ambush near Kirkuk village.
According to the source in the PMU, the airstrike took place in the village of Hamadiyah within Rashad subdistrict.
Butma cell hit a Federal Police convoy tonight east of Hawija which resulted in at least one officer KIA.
Source in Brigade 56 says that the Coalition struck a group of ISIS near Rashad earlier today.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi arrives in Riyadh
Turkish raids on the areas of Matina and Zab in northern Iraq
4 month agoInteresting Google Earth screenshot behind CTS spokesman Sabah Numah shows the locs of the insurgent hides that ISOF hit last week - looks like they're all north of Lake Hamrin a west of Qara Tapa in north Diyala
Twenty jihadists of the Islamic State militant group were killed Tuesday in air raids by the Iraqi Air Force in province of Kirkuk.
The ISIS cells from Razaza shores struck again. A convoy from Iraq Army 10th Division struck an IED south of Fallujah and there is news of as many as 21 soldiers wounded.
13 Iraqi soldiers, reportedly, killed and wounded in a bomb attack in Falluja district. Iraq
Iraqi Counter-terrorism service arrests 4 ISIS in north Baghdad, among them a woman.
4 month agoExhumers suspect hundreds of Yezidis suspected are in a mass grave in Shingal
